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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEa \VILLIAM M. FOlVLER, OF MILFORD, CONNECTICUT.

APPARATUS FOR DISPENSING DRINKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 460,260, dated September 29, 1891. Application filed December 13, 1890. serial No. 374,600. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM M. FOWLER, of Milford, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Dispensing Drinks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in apparatus for dispensing drinks, and more particularly to apparatus adapted to use in connection with the bottles of ordinary size and shape commonly employed for holding beverages in stock.

My invention contemplates a conveniently portable frame or support, within which a bot tle of ordinary size and shape may be locked, subject to removal only by the person holding the key, and from which drinks or doses may be drawn and a permanent record there of made.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a view of the apparatus in elevation with its handle and indicating apparatus presented toward the eye, showing a bottle in position as in use. Fig. 2 is a top plan View. Fig. 3 is a view in vertical section through line 0c of Fig. 2. Fig.4 is a in detail of the stopper, reservoir, operating-lever, and parts immediatelyconnected therewith in side elevation, partly in section. Fig. 5 is a vertical section in detail through the stopper, reservoir, and lever, the section being taken through the port leading from the reservoir to the interior of the bottle. Fig. 6 is a vertical section in detail through the stopper and reservoir, the section being taken through the port leading to the spout, and the position of the lever being shown in dotted lines; and Fig. '7 is an enlarged view in elevation of the mechanism for operating the indicator-hands.

A represents a hollow base or pedestal of such size and shape as to furnish a stable support for the superstructure fixed thereto and for the bottle when locked therein. To the upper margin of the baseA thelower portion of a rim dis fixed, the said rim to extending upwardly and forming a socket for receiving and retaining the lower portion of a bottle B. The space inclosed by the rim a is intended to be somewhat larger in diameter than the diameter of the bottle to be received therein, and the bottle is centered Within such space upon a vertically-movable plate or support O, within the pedestal A, conveniently by means of beveled-faced lugs 0, adapted to engage the margin of the bottom of the bottle. The number of such beveled-shaped lugs is preferably three. The vertically movable plate or support 0 rests upon supporting springs c, which tend to hold it in a normally-- elevated adjustment above the bottom of the pedestal A. The said plate 0 forms the top of a bellows D, the bottom a of the pedestal serving as the bottom of the bellows, and being provided with a valve d for the admission of air through the bottom a into the bellows.

From the side of the pedestalAa standard (here shown as a channel-bar E) extends upwardly, its lower end being fixed to the base, and the back of the bar being conveniently provided with a handle 6 for convenience in handling the apparatus. The said upwardlyextending bar E is preferably curved inwardly, as shown, above the position which the larger portion of the bottle is intended to occupy, in order to bring its upper end into closer proximity to the axial line of the nozzle. The channel-bar E is located with its open face toward the position which the bottle B is to occupy, and within said open face, between the sides of the channel-bar, there is located a bar F, fixed at its lower end to the vertically-movable plate or support 0 and free to move up and down within the bar E as the plate 0 is elevated or depressed within the pedestal. The edges of the sides of the channel-bar E along its upper portion are provided with teeth 6, and the upper portion of the bar F is also provided with teeth f on the side toward the position of the bottle. The teeth f are preferably formed, as shown, of the saw-teeth type for the purpose of receiving a locking-dog, while the teeth 6 on the bar E are of the blunt type, as the said bar is to be employed at this portion as a rack-bar.

That portion of the stopper which is adapted to enter the nozzle of the bottle is denoted by g, and the head portion, which is preferably formed integral with the portion 9, is

denoted by G. The latter or head portion of the stopper-is provided with an opening therethrough in a direction transverse to the vertical axis of the bottle when in position for the reception of areservoir H. The reservoir H is preferably of cylindrical form, with oval end portions, as indicated clearly in Fig. 2, and the head G is preferably split at the top and provided with upwardly-extending lugs h, adapted to receive therethrough draw-bolts or adjusting screws 77/ for the purpose of regulating to a nicety the freedom with which the reservoir shall be allowed to rotate within the head. The head G is further provided with an opening transverse to the direction in which the reservoir H is to be inserted, which opening extends to a point below the position which the reservoir is to occupy within the head, and is intended to receive therein ring-like branches 11 of the bifurcated end of the operating-lever I. The branches 1' of the operating-lever are shown in the present instance as embracing the reservoir H, and are intended to be fixed thereto by means of set-screws 2" or other well-known fastening device. The head G of the stopper is provided on opposite sides of the opening, which receives the bifurcated end of the handle, with lugs g, adapted to embrace the opposite sides of the channel-barE and receive through their free ends back of the channel-bar a fastening-pin K. The pin K has mounted thereon, between the lugs g, a sleeve k, adapted to form a bearing against the back of the chan nel-bar, and when the pin K is in position said sleeve serves to hold the head of the stopper in the desired position relatively to the toothed portion of the channel-bar. The portions of the branches 2 of the handle which are located toward the toothed edges of the channel-bar are provided with teeth t forming in effect toothed sectors adapted to engage the toothed edges of the channel-bar when the head is locked in its position.

Between the branches 2' of the handle and loosely surrounding the reservoir H there is located arin g or collar L, provided atits upper portion, on the side toward the channel-bar, with a tooth or nose Z, adapted to interlock with the teeth f on the bar F, and at its lower portion on the same side is provided with a square-faced lug Z, adapted to bear against the face of the bar F, and serve as a guide to prevent the said ring L from rotating on the reservoir. The reservoir H is provided with a port 72', adapted to register with a channel 9 leading through the stopper to the interior of the bottle, and with a port 715, adapted to register with a channel 9 leading through the head of the stopper to the spout g. The ports 71 and 71 are adapted to be broughtinto position to register with their respective channels atpredetermined intervals, as will be hereinafter more fully described. The stop per is further provided with a channel 9 which communicates at one end with the interior of the bottle andat its opposite end with a tube M, extending downwardly along the side of the bottle and telescoping at its lower end with an upwardly-extending tube m, which communicates at its lower end with the interior of the bellows and is fixed to the vertically-movable plate 0. The telescopic connection between the tubes M and m admits of the downward and upward movement of the plate 0 without breaking the connection between the tubes, and also serves to adapt the apparatus to bottles of varying heights. A tube N connects at its upper end with the channel g in the stopper, and its lower end is open and located at a point in proximity to the bottom of the bottle.

In operation, the stopper and the parts fixed thereto being removed from the bar E, a bottle-such as B, for examplemay be placed in position with its bottom resting upon the guide-lugs 0 upon the support 0. The stopper may then be inserted in the nozzle of the bottle, the tube M telescoping with the tube m, and the head of the stopper with the parts connected thereto being lowered along down the bar E until the lower portion g of the stopper is tight within the nozzle. The head G of the stopper may then be moved toward the toothed faces of the bars E and F, bringing the nose or tooth L into engagement with the teeth f and the teeth on the branchest' of the lever into engagement with the teeth 011 the edges of the bar E, and in this position the head may be locked by inserting the pin K through the lugs g and sleeve 76 and looking it in positionas, for example, by a padlock O. In this position the bottle will be locked against removal, except by the possession of a key which will open the padlock, since the nose L is interlocked with the barF, and the latterbeing elevated to its uppermost limit it will not be possible to release the head of the stopper from it or to release it from the bar E, fixed to the pedestal. If, now, it be desired to draw from the bottle the drink or dose, the lever I may be depressed, thereby rotating the reservoir H and bringing the port 72, into position to register with the channel 9 open to the interior of the bottle near its bottom through the tube N. This same rotation of the reservoir H by the depression of the lever I will also, by the engagement of the teeth t with the rack-teeth on the bar E, force the bottle bodily downward, compressing the bellows D, and thereby forcing the air therein upwardly through the tubes m and M into the bottle B, and the pressure of the air on the liquid within the bottle B will force the liquid therein up through the tube N, channel g and port 71 into the reservoir 1-1. When the reservoir H has been thereby charged with the desired amount, the continued depression of the lever I will cut oif completely the port 72 from the channel g and after such cut-off is completed will bring the port h to register with the channel 9 leading to the discharge-spout 9 through which the liquid in the reservoir H will pass into the glass or IIO -wardly, carrying with it the other receptacle placed under the spout. When the lever I is released, the springs 0', under the movable plate 0, will return the parts to their elevated or normal positions in position to have the operation repeated.

The means for recording the delivery of a drink or a dose are as follows: In the back .of the bar F there is formed a recess f,

adapted to receive the nose 1) of an operating-bar P. The bar P has a limited longitudinal movement, and its nose 19 extends through an elongated slot e in the back of the bar E, and also through a corresponding slot q in the back of a casing Q, adapted to contain the recording mechanism. A pawl p, pivotedto the bar P, is adapted to rest in normal engagement with a tooth on the pinion R, and when the bar P is forced downion R will be thereby rotated. in the back of the casing Q, is so located with respect to the weighted end of the pawl 19' that when thepawl has been carried downwardly a sufficient distance to rotate the pinion R one tooth its end will engage the pin p and the pawl will thereby beloeked out of engagement with the pinion R during the farther downward movement of the bar P. A dummy spur-wheel r communicates the motion of the pinion R to a spur-wheel R. It is intended that the relation between the pinion R and the wheel R shall be such that the wheel R shall be capable of recordingby one revolution the results of several revolutions of the pinion It. In the present instance a single rotation of the pinion R will turn the wheel R one-fourth of a revolution,and as the pinion R is here shown as provided with twenty-five teeth, and as a movement the distance of one tooth corresponds to the delivery of one drink or dose, the wheel R will be capable of recording one hundred drinks or doses. Suitableindicator-hands fixed to rotate with the pinion R and wheel It over suitable dial plates, as shown in Fig. 1, will serve to indicate to the observer the relative movements of said pinion and wheel. The dial-plate correspond ing to the wheel R may be, if so desired, concealed and locked in concealment in any well-known or approved manner, subject only to inspection by the party holding the key. A spring S, in engagement with the bar I, tends to hold the bar normally in elevated adjustment and to return it to such position when the bar F- is elevated. In order to insure the entrance of the liquid into the reservoir H before the record is made, I provide for lost motion in the recess f in the back of the bar F, so that the bar F shall be allowed to descend under the impulse of the operating-levertoa point to bring the port kg to register with the channel 9 before it begins to carry with it in its downward course the bar P. The further downward movement of the operating-lever I will, however, through A pin 17 set pawl 19', the pinthe bar F, carry the. bar P downwardly, and thereby rotate the pinion R and record the delivery of the drink or dose.

What I claim is 1. In combination, aseat for a liquid-receptacle, a stopper for the liquid-receptacle, having a movement toward and away from the seat for the liquid-receptacle, an air-receptacle, means for communicating the movement of the stopper to the air-receptacle to force the air therefrom, an air-conduit leading from the interior of the air-receptacle to the interior of the liquid-receptacle through the stopper, a liquid-conduitleading from the interior of theliquid-receptacle through the stopper to a discharge-opening, and means for operating the stopper, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination, a bellows, a seat on the bellows for a liquid receptacle, a stopper adapted to close the liquid-receptacle, an airconduit through the stopper to the bellows, a liquid-conduit through the stopper to a discharge-opening, means for compressing the bellows, and an indicator under the control of the bellows-compressing means, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination, a base or pedestal, a bellows located within the base or pedestal, a seat on the bellows for a bottle, a standard fixed to and uprising from the base, a stopper adjusted to close the nozzle of the bottle when the latter is in position in the bellows, means for locking the stopper in engagement with the standard,an air-conduit through the stopper to the bellows, a liquid-conduit through the stopper to a discharge, a reservoir interposed in the liquidchannel, and: means for compressing the bellows, substantially as set forth.

4-. In combination, a base or pedestal provided with a guard-rim, a bellows within the base, a seat on the bellows for a bottle, a standard fixed to and uprising from the base, a stopper engaged with the standard, a bottle forming when in position a connection between the stopper and bellows, an air-conduit through the stopper to the bellows, a liquidconduit through the stopper to a discharge, a reservoir interposed in the liquid-conduit in the stopper, and means for depressing the stopper and bottle, andthereby compressing the air in the bellows, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination, with a suitable sup porting base or pedestal and means forlocking a bottle therein in yielding adjustment, of a bellows under the control of the yielding bottle and its operating mechanism, an air: conduit adapted to communicate between the interior of the bottle and the bellows, a liquid-conduit adapted to communicate between the interior of the bottle and adischarge, and means for operating the bottle and hence the bellows, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination, with the base and the uprising bar or standard fixed thereto, of the bellows within the base, a bar fixed to the bellows and uprising therefrom, a seat on the bellows for a bottle, a stopper, means for looking the stopper to the bar fixed to the bellows, conduits through the stopper, adapted to establish communication between the interior of the bottle and the bellows and a discharge, respectively, and means fordepressing the stopper, and thereby compressing the bellows, substantially as set forth.

7. The combination, with the base and the channel-bar uprising therefrom and fixed thereto, of the bellows, an uprising bar fixed to the bellows and extending upwardly within the hollow face of the channel-bar, a seat within the base for a bottle, a stopper, means for locking the stopper to the bar connected with the bellows, means for forcing the stop per along the face of the channel-bar, and conduits adapted to establish communication between the interior of the bottle and the bellows and a discharge, substantially as set forth.

8. The combination, with a suitable base, a bottle-seat having a movement up and down therein and a bellows under the control of the bottle-seat, of a bar uprising from and fixed to the base, a stopper having a rotary reservoir seated therein, means for locking the stopper in engagement with the uprising bar, means for rotating the reservoir and thereby depressing the stopper, inlet and discharge ports through the wall of the reservoir inlet and discharge channels in the stopper with which the ports in the reservoir register, and an air-conduit through the stopper to the bellows, substantially as set forth.

9. The stopper comprisinga portion adapted to enter the nozzle of the bottle, and a head portion provided with a seat for a reservoir, a channel leading from the reservoir seat through the end of the stopper to be inserted within the bottle, a channel leading from the reservoir seat to a discharge spout, and a channel leading from the end of a stopper to be inserted within the bottle to the exterior of the stopper, in combination with a reservoir seated within the stopper and provided with ports adapted to register with the channels leading from its seat, an operating-lever fixed to said reservoir to rotate it into position to bring its ports to register with the channels, an uprising bar, means for holding the operating-lever in engagement with the bar, means for retaining the bottle in position to receive the stopper, and means for forcing air into the bottle as the reservoir is rotated, substantially as set forth.

10. The combination,with the base provided with a seat for a bottle, and a standard fixed to and uprising from the base, of the stopper provided with a reservoir seated in its head, a locking device loosely mounted on the cylinder, a vertically-movable bar adapted to engage said looking device, an operating-lever fixed to the reservoir and provided with a toothed sector, rack-teeth on the uprising bar fixed to base, means for holding the toothed sector on the operating-lever in engagement with the rack-teeth on the bar, ports in the reservoir adapted to establish communication with the interior of the bottle and with the outside air, and means for forcing airinto the bottle as the stopper is depressed, substantially as set forth.

11. The combination, with the base, the bar fixed thereto and uprising therefrom, and the bellows located within the base, of a bar fixed to the bellows and uprising therefrom, a seat on the bellows for abottle,a stopper provided with lugs adapted to embrace the opposite sides of the uprising bar fixed to the base, a locking device on the stopper adapted to engage the bar fixed to the bellows, a pin extending through the lugs on the stopper to lock the stopper to the bar, and alock for holding the pin in position, whereby the bottle when placed in position is locked against removal from its seat until the stopper is released from the uprising bars, substantialiy as set forth.

12. 'lhecombination,withthebaseprovided with an uprising rim fixed thereto, a bellows located within the base, and a seat on the bellows for the bottle, of an uprising bar fixed to the base, a stopper for the bottle, means for engaging the stopper with the uprising bar, tubes leading, respectively, upwardly from the bellows and downwardly from the stopper and having telescopic connection with one another, air and liquid conduits through the stopper, and means for depressing the stopper, and thereby depressing the bottle when in position and forcing the air in the bellows through the telescoping tubes into the bottle to drive the liquid therein out,'substantially as set forth.

WILLIAM M. FOWLER. \Vitnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, GEORGE BARRY. 

